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No deal yet on Mediterranean alliance for EU agencies

Greek alternate foreign minister of foreign affairs Georgios Katrougalos told press on Tuesday that his proposal to Mediterranean EU members, to share votes about the relocation of London-based EU agencies, "was generally positively accepted." However, he admitted "we did not have a formal consensus about that yet". Portugal and Italy have refrained from publicly accepting his offer. The relocation vote is scheduled for next month.

Britain wants to negotiate with Brussels the end date of the Brexit transition period - without saying what their preferred end date would be. The UK's position paper disagrees with the EU on other key points too.